Sneeze Shield Tea

Keep any cold or flu at bay with this preventative healing tea. This tea is a boost to your immune system and great to keep your body warm with a good  circulation flow. Plus the taste is amazing. It’s tea in a blanket 🫖🧦

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TCM Benefits

• Strengthen and moves the qi

• Warms the body - Induces sweat

• Reduces and moves phlegm

• Expels cold

• Harmonizes and strengthen the digestion

• Loosens stagnation

• Immune and energy tonic

• Potent anti-inflammatory

• Controls nausea

• Frees surface from pathogenic wind–cold factors

Nutricional Properties and Benefits

• Vitamins: A, B, C, K

• Minerals: calcium, copper, iron, potassium, magnesium, manganese, zinc

• Other properties and benefits:

  • Anti-inflammatory

  • Antioxidant

  • Antiviral and Antimicrobial

  • Antimicrobial

  • Blood Sugar Control

  • Digestive Health

  • Immune Boosting

TCM Flavour: Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Astringent, Pungent

Energetics/TCM Thermal Nature: Warm

Organ-Meridian: Lung, stomach, Spleen, Liver, Kidneys

Season: Fall, Winter, Spring

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Total Time: 10 minutes

Serves: 1 tea pot

Cuisine: European, North American

Meal Type: Drinks

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Ingredients:

• 1 litre water

• 1 small lemon/lime sliced

• 2 cinnamon sticks

• 40 g piece ginger sliced

• 5 leaves of fresh peppermint or spearmint

• 2 star anise

• Honey

Directions:

1. Put the water, lemon, cinnamon sticks, star anise and ginger into a saucepan and bring to the boil.

2. Cover and leave to infuse for 3–5 minutes until the tea reaches your preferred level of spice.

3. Add the honey to taste and serve.

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Themes and Variations

You can replace the honey for date syrup.

Especially Good For

Anyone experiencing the first symptoms of flu. It helps to free the surface from pathogenic wind-cold factores.
Anyone with poor digestion, nausea, lack of appetite, bloating, lack of strength, cold extremities (hand and feet), migraines. Relieves cough with mucus. 
Great to dissipate cold, blood stasis by invigorating blood circulation, eliminates phlegm.
Also good for women during menstruation symptoms. Also a good tonic to drink before having the menstruation. 
It helps to detox the body while hydrating.
Good for people with rheumatism (arthritis) that worsens with wind–cold.

TIP

Don’t drink it if you have patterns of heat, hot flashes, High blood pressure or if you have the flu for more than 2 days.

If you have dry cough omit the cinnamon and star anise.

Other Resources

• Pharmacological activity and clinical application analysis of traditional Chinese medicine ginger from the perspective of one source and multiple substances

• Herbs and Spices- Biomarkers of Intake Based on Human Intervention Studies – A Systematic Review

• Spices in the management of diabetes mellitus

• A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect and safety of ginger in the treatment of pregnancy-associated nausea and vomiting

• Effect of Zingiber officinale R. rhizomes (ginger) on pain relief in primary dysmenorrhea: a placebo randomized trial

• Ginger supplement significantly reduced length of hospital stay in individuals with COVID-19

• Effect of cinnamon as a Chinese herbal medicine on markers of cardiovascular risk in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Citral in lemon myrtle, lemongrass, litsea, and melissa essential oils suppress the growth and invasion of breast cancer cells